AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

MEAT REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

No. 15 of 1985

The amendments to the Meat Regulations alter the legislation to reflect changes in slaughtering in the Australian Capital Territory and in the importation of meat into the Territory resulting from the introduction of a national meat inspection scheme.  The opportunity has also been taken to make miscellaneous amendments to the legislation to delete provisions which are no longer required.

The Meat Regulations (Amendments) repeals regulation 3 and regulations 6 to 20 inclusive of the Meat Regulations as these regulations are unnecessary now that the ACT does not have a public abattoir and abattoirs in the ACT are to be controlled under the Meat Inspection Act 1983.  Regulation 20A has been deleted and replaced by a new regulation 6 to reflect the new arrangements on the importation of meat into the ACT to be introduced as a result of the Meat Inspection Act 1983.

The schedule and all references to a schedule have been deleted as they are unnecessary.  The remaining regulations have been amended where necessary to delete “public abattoirs” and “slaughtering places” and substitute references to “abattoirs”.  Amendments have also been made to delete references to “a fee of $4” and substitute “determined fee”.